Who da man? Wolfowitz da man!!
Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
The thing I usually hate most of wars are the lies behind them. But listening to the words of people like Wolfowitz (who cannot be considered a pacifist anyway) should give a better picture of the reasons why wars start, end, and continue somewhere else. Besides these info can just help all of us to take a decision for the next elections...
Update: it seems the article contained wrong information, please refer to the comments in this entry for more info.
However, although the accuracy of the quotes might have been wrong, I'm so glad to see that so much interest has been raised about something that we all already knew but wasn't actually in the public yet.
Comments
The link is dead. The article is still in their article list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/archive/0,8886,423098,00.html
But the link doesn't work. I've written the webmaster.
Posted by: nis | June 5, 2003 5:07 PM
That's because the Guardian has retracted the story and admitted their error:
"A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going to war in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, according to the department of defence website, "The ... difference between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is very different from that with Iraq." The sense was clearly that the US had no economic options by means of which to achieve its objectives, not that the economic value of the oil motivated the war. The report appeared only on the website and has now been removed."
Posted by: Kevin Murphy | June 5, 2003 6:54 PM
wolfowitz is a scumbag chickenhawk .he sells death for world domination and control of global resources- BIG OIL..
SCREW THAT despicable man
Posted by: karenn | July 27, 2003 11:56 PM